Program manager highlights importance of PNT protection

By Connie Lee / May 10, 2017 at 8:15 AM
The Army needs to focus on obtaining positioning, navigation and timing information in GPS-degraded environments, according to PNT program manager Kevin Coggins. During a May 3 panel hosted by C4ISRNET & Networks, Coggins said the service's assured PNT program is "going to take the Army to the next level of navigation in warfare and take capabilities beyond just GPS alone." "Our adversaries have figured out how to attack this [GPS] technology," he said. "It has many vulnerabilities. It's fixed-frequency, it's...

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